Baptismisal Font - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church - Cedron, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 46.420 W 092° 34.093
15S E 537507 N 4291749
This font dates from 1840, in gallery there is a picture of it from 1884.
Waymark Code: WMQN3K
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 03/06/2016
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County of font: Moniteau County
Location of site: Cedron Rd & Zey St., Cedron (ghost town), ½ mile W. of MO-D, and several miles W. of Jamestown
The font was plain, and was painted, I am told by the caretaker who escorted me around the church, when the nave was completed in 1872.
"The first baptism administered at Cedron was August 6, 1839 by Fr. Helias. The baptisms are entered in the books at Taos, where Fr. Helias lived most of his missionary life. Fr. Helias administered the first Baptism at Pisgah, a place within the limits of Cedron was on August 16, 1839.
"In the early years from 1839, infant baptisms were done in the parents homes. The first baptisms in the Assumption Church of Moniteau were recorded as those of Gertrude Weingartner on February 24, 1852 followed by that of Joseph August Wittman on June 26, 1853." ~ Assumption Catholic Church - Remembering Our Heritage